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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
Book Image

Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By: Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate is used to create highly engaging, interactive, and responsive eLearning content. This book takes you through the production of a few pieces of eLearning content, covering all the project types and workflows of Adobe Captivate. First, you will learn how to create a typical interactive Captivate project. This will give you the opportunity to review all Captivate objects and uncover the application's main tools. Then, you will use the built-in capture engine of Captivate to create an interactive software simulation and a Video Demo that can be published as an MP4 video. Then, you will approach the advanced responsive features of Captivate to create a project that can be viewed on any device. And finally, you will immerse your learners in a 360o environment by creating Virtual Reality projects of Adobe Captivate. At the end of the book, you will empower your workflow and projects with the newer and most advanced features of the application, including variables, advanced actions, JavaScript, and using Captivate 2019 with other applications. If you want to produce high quality eLearning content using a wide variety of techniques, implement eLearning in your company, enable eLearning on any device, assess the effectiveness of the learning by using extensive Quizzing features, or are simply interested in eLearning, this book has you covered!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
7
Working with Quizzes
14
Variables and Advanced Actions

Masking the Video and Webcam layers in the Timeline

In the Video Demo project, both the screen recording and the webcam recordings are visible all the time. If you wish to hide one of the feeds during the playback of the Video Demo, you can use the Mask feature to hide a video feed for a defined amount of time. 

For example, when you are introducing the topic, concluding it, or explaining a concept, you can hide the screen capture recording and just show the webcam feed. Similarly, if you want the students to concentrate on the step you are showing instead of looking at the webcam feed, you can mask the webcam feed. 

Let's take a look at the steps to do that:

  1. In the encoderVideo.cpvc file, open the Timeline
  2. Move the Playhead to the beginning of the video.
  3. Then, select the Video/Audio layer in the Timeline.
  4. Click the Mask Video button:

  1. You can see two black handles, used to make a selection on the Timeline to mask the video. Move the...